4-23-12: Lots has been happening in my life, difficult things, but
things
that will provide lots of muse for my music. The best is yet
to
come.

I
am contiuning to work on a song called, formerly called, "Game
Show, " now called, "Lies and Consequences."
Anchor Mejans has provided a powerful recording of my lyrics, which I
am working writing music around.

A handful of SKySWiM listeners
asked me if the lyrics of my songs
were just nonsense, as found in my song, Encrypt the Question. In my
typically obsessive manner, I e-mailed them quite an extensive
explanation of the meaning
behind all of the lyricsof this song.
Consider yourself one of the few to get that explanation,
since
you bothered to come by to read this blog entry. YOU WILL BE
SURPRISED AT HOW LONG MY EXPLANATION OF THIS SONG IS!
Here is a copy
of what I e-mailed:

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As with most of my songs, my lyrics include a lot of highly
compressed information. Some may think that much of my lyrics
are mere nonsense, however, I would have to disagree, and I will try to
prove that with examining the lyrics of my new song, Encrypt the
Question.

In "Encrypt the
Question," I take the point of view of the "bad guys" who are
instigating all the problems mentioned in these 3 songs. Now
to the lyrics of this song. "Dilute the water
so we can breathe": This is the ongoing pagan plan to water down truth,
especially the Gospel and the Bible, and to a lesser degree, other
aspects of truth across the board, anything that might induce a
biblical sense of GUILT before God.

"Drink from the air the unrequited
banter" The "bad guys" have been busy saturating our world
with as much distractions as they can. They themselves enjoy
it, even as much as the masses that they are trying to
distract. This banter, flowing through the air (TV, wireless
internet, etc.) is designed to be a desirable substitute for
any worthwhile human relationship.
"Rush past the lyrics one
spent years living": This has a duel meaning
also. The "bad guys" want to encourage the masses to NOT
CAREFULLY STUDY the propaganda that they have been fed all these years,
ones which they have for the most part, based their lives
upon. There is little to worry for them here, because it
takes lots of PERSONAL COURAGE to carefully question one's own life,
especially as they get older and set in their "ways," "Christian" or
not.

There is also a level of sadness in this lyric, in that it
also represents the "bad guy" speaking to himself, sensing a kind of
vanity or emptiness in their own lives, in how they too, have gotten
caught up in their own propaganda, and are far from the
truth. This verse comes to mind about such people:

2 Tim 3:13 But evil men and impostors will proceed {from bad}
to worse, deceiving and being
deceived.

These "impostors" who work at all levels of the media, government, and
religion (including evangelical Christianity), must to a certain
degree, feel a sense of sadness, in that it must be psychological and
spiritually exhausting to pretend to be something that they are not
:

Jude 1:12-13,16
12 These men are those who are hidden
reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring
for themselves;clouds without water, carried
along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;
13 wild waves of the sea,
casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the
black darkness has been reserved forever.
16 These are grumblers,
finding fault, following after their {own}
lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of
{gaining an} advantage.

"Feel universal love
slither in your heart's tomb": This represents
Satan's occultic counterfeit of agape love. "Slither" should
get the listener to think of the Serpent. Heart's tomb" is an
indication of the true spiritual state of not only the "bad guys," but
also of the masses who are encouraged to seek out this false satanic
love.

"Scathe those who doubt
every other word spoken": Effective propagandists do a
number of things, one of which is to divide and conquer the masses,
that is, to get those in one major group to HATE and effectively
disregard the any other major groups. "EVERY OTHER WORD" of
course on the surface, seems to turn this into a nonsense
phrase. However, as we have seen in effective use of
propaganda that has been used against us, the Hegelian
Dialectic was
used, where BOTH sides of an argument are CONTROLLED by the
propagandist! Thus, SOME TRUTH IS SPOKEN BY BOTH SIDES,
however, the goal of the propagandist is to LEAVE OUT CRITICAL INFORMATION, so that the blind masses on
both sides never fall out of line of the mental/emotional manipulations
that they are victim of.

"Encrypt the question,
all 3 eyes will not answer": This might be the most complex and
convoluted line in the song. "Encrypt the question" has to do
with the "bad guys" talking to themselves, realizing that if one can
keep the masses from asking the RIGHT QUESTIONS, one can keep the
masses from figuring out the RIGHT ANSWERS.

God created the earth in
a way so as to teach mankind in a pedagogical manner about Himself, His
plans for mankind, and everything else. It is interesting to
note that before each major revelation of God found in the Bible,
especially just a few centuries before Christ's first coming to earth,
mankind started to ask the RIGHT QUESTIONS that only the Incarnation of
Jesus Christ could answer!

A similar "question" is
forming, in regards to globalism and world government. The
RIGHT QUESTIONS about these matters are being encrypted, substituted
with WRONG QUESTIONS, thus leading to WRONG ANSWERS.
NEVERTHELESS, God who is SOVEREIGN, overrides all this, because mankind
cannot help but one day see the RIGHT QUESTIONS, and many will
eventually see the RIGHT ANSWERS. Right now, most of us,
including Christians, are living in one of the darkest "dark
ages" in terms of understanding most of what is going on around
us. It seems clearly to be a miracle that someone who does
not belief in "conspiracy theories," can suddenly one day believe that
a man that died nearly 2000 years ago is alive today, and somehow lives
in their heart, or believe in a literal Adam and Eve, when most of the
media and science "experts" tell us that such a start of the human race
is merely myth.

The ultimate "right
answer" to come, will be when Jesus physically returns to the earth to
show the world that He is GLOBALLY and UNIVERSALLY THE way, THE truth,
and THE life, that no man can come to God the Father but by
HIM. Not only that, but the other right answer, is that Jesus
is the KING of KINGS, and LORD OF LORDS. Globalism is
ironically the solution to many of the world's problems, something that
we could not avoid forever. Satan obviously saw this coming,
and in his attempts to fight God and destroy mankind, for a long time,
has been aiming to create a counterfeit global Kingdom of God.

"All 3 eyes will not
answer" has a double meaning. The more obvious one has to do
with the supposed "3rd Eye" each of us have according to the occult,
but most do not use, which represents IN REALITY the opening of a
gateway to DEMONIC control in an individual. This occurs
through practicing sin, especially without repentance to God for
it. Certain sins will of course open this "3rd eye" more
quickly than others, especially if one actively tries to do some form
of occult practice, as mentioned in the Old Testament.

Another meaning of "all
3 eyes will not answer" is that it refers to various versions of the
Satanic Trinity. The clearest and most biblical one being
Satan as the "father", the Antichrist as the "son," and the False
Prophet in place of the "holy spirit". In the occult, there
is a strange and telling usage of individual eyes. It has
been pointed out on various websites that in Catholic Mel Gibson's
movie, The Passion of the Christ, it was very significant that Jesus only
had ONE EYE OPEN (the LEFT eye), through much of the movie, due
to the right eye being punched. The Eye of Horus, both in all
Egyptian art, and on the back of the dollar bill, are all LEFT
EYES.

Regardless of what the
"3 eyes" might represent specifically, the single main message in this
lyric is that Satan and his demons are being VERY TIGHT-LIPPED about
many critical aspects of their age-old conspiracy to take over the
world. As a former occultist, I was very aware at times at
how the "spirit world" got very quiet when I asked certain
questions. In hindsight, they had to be quiet about them,
otherwise, they would have betrayed their REAL PLANS to me, and who
they REALLY were, and the fact that I too was EXPENDABLE.

It appears that the top
level human elitists from my studies are aware of the fact that they
are "expendable," and that many of them will be asked to fall
like pawns on a chess board. HOWEVER, they have bought into
the LIE that they will be REWARDED for allowing themselves to be
destroyed, maligned, discredited, etc., the day that Lucifer supposedly
will RESURRECT them. Yes, there is a pagan version of
resurrection, at least to many occultists.

Occultists are only told
what they need to know, even if that information is meant to deceive
them. Ex-Freemasons have pointed out how higher Masonic
levels will CONTRADICT what they were taught in lower levels.
I've experienced having to "re-learn" new occult information in place
of old "inaccurate" information myself from "spirit guides" while I was
involved in such things.

The next 3 lines in the
song all go together:

"Believe in random
progress, by the time you reach Phoenix, orderly chaos will complete":
"Believe in random progress" goes along with the main slogan of
Freemasons: Ordo
ab Chao, which
means, "order out of chaos". In a nutshell, the elitists, at
least since the middle ages (maybe longer), have instigated through
their covert control of both the ruling class and opposition, created
INSTABILITY, through such things as contrived food shortages (think
pre-French and pre-Russian revolutions), false flag attacks (attacking
one's own country, and framing another country in order to attack it),
and many other catalysts to cause chaos. Then, these elitists
turn around, and offer a SOLUTION, which always amounts to the elitists
gaining MORE CONTROL (order).

"By the time you reach
Phoenix": As nearly everyone knows, the phoenix was a
mythical bird whose design was to SACRIFICE itself every 500 years, and
out of its own ashes, be reborn, to live at least another 500
years. The CATHOLIC Church very early on adopted the symbol
of the phoenix, and in their pagan Greek way,
associated it with the resurrection of Christ. Since most of the
occult world for centuries has apparently looked towards 2012 as being
the time of "rebirth" to the earth, it seems that going back 500 years
in regards to their mythical phoenix would hold some historical occult
significance. I barely started looking for clues on this, but
so far, I found this occurrence which to me, seems
to be the most telling occultic event of that year:

"In
1512 Juan Ponce De Leon,
in search of
gold and thefountain of youth, sailed from Porto Rico and on
27th March he landed in latitude 30° 8', slightly north of St.
Augustine. The Indian name of the country was Cautio, but Ponce de Leon
named it Florida, having discovered it on Easter Sunday. The Spaniards
planted a cross, unfurled the royal banner, and took the oath of
allegiance to Ferdinand, in whose name they took possession."

The myth of the
"fountain of youth," also known as the "water of life," was a clear
counterfeit of what Jesus could only give one day, was around for
thousands of years, and was written about extensively by the GREEK
historian Herodotus, 5th century BC. If a real fountain of
youth existed, then one using it would never need to be saved from
their sins, to have eternal life. The Catholic-based Spanish
government was willing to finance the expensive expedition to try to
find this seemingly "mythical" water, which also seems to make this
possibly more significant.

To make matters a bit
more confusing,
this Freemason website
claims that the phoenix's lifespan cycle is 608
years. They at least outwardly agree with the
CATHOLICS that this symbol represents Christ's resurrection.
Other masonic writings indicate otherwise, and thus, suggest that this
is intentionally false information to the non-Masonic public.

It was harder to find
out what might have been the most important occultic occurrence in 1404
(2012 - 608). Here is a quick
guess:

... It confronts the church as a
representation of city rights opposed to the territorial claims of the prince-archbishop. Statues of Roland appear in
numerous cities of the former Holy Roman Empire, as emblems of city liberties, Stadtrechte.[1] The Roland statue at Bremen is
the oldest surviving example. From Bremen the symbol of civic
liberty and freedom spread to other cities and has become a symbol of the new Europe."

As I have stated many
times before, American "liberty" is not based upon biblical principles,
but upon the same pagan Greek principles that Europe held to long
ago. Ultimately, I am convinced that it symbolizes liberty
from the GOD OF THE BIBLE.

"European mysticism was
not dead at the time the United States of America was founded. The hand
of the mysteries controlled in the establishment of the new government
for the signature of the mysteries may still be seen onthe Great Seal of the United
states of America.
Careful analysis of the seal discloses a mass of occult and Masonic
symbols chief among them, the so-called American Eagle. ... the American eagle upon the
Great Seal is but a conventionalized phoenix... Not only were many of the
founders of the United States government Masons, but they received aid
from a secret and august body existing in Europe which helped them to
establish this country for a peculiar and particular purpose known only
to the initiated few. The Great Seal is the signature of this exalted
body—unseen and for the most part unknown—and the
unfinished pyramid upon its reverse side is a trestleboard setting
forth symbolically the task to the accomplishment of which the United
States Government was dedicated from the day of its inception."

One last thing about my
lyric, "By the time you reach phoenix." I used a play on
words on the song made famous by Glen Campbell, called, "By the
Time I Get to Phoenix."

"Orderly chaos will complete": With what I have
written a few paragraphs before, the meaning of this should be fairly
obvious. The occultic program of instigating chaos
(instability) in the world gives these same people the perfect
opportunity to "fix" the problem (create more order/control) that they
instigated in the first place. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton (wearing a
PHOENIX PIN in this picture),
recently gave a good example of how the occult elite create their OWN
order out of chaos:

(Reuters) - "Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton told an audience Friday "never waste a good crisis," and highlighted the opportunity of rebuilding
economies in a greener, less energy-intensive way..."

What will this "orderly
chaos" ultimately bring to completion? According to all the
occult writings I've read, it will mean the end of true Christianity,
and the rise of the ANTICHRIST.

"Freeze-dry the fallen snow": This begins a series of
strange and paradoxical statements/commands in my lyrics that represent
the occult elitist point of view. Freeze-drying of course
means taking all the WATER out of something. If you do that
to snow, there is NOTHING LEFT, yet a lot of hard work is
instigated. This is the kind of "rebuilding" the occult elite
really will do for the people of the world, instead of truly helping
them. Starvation, disease, war, and death will be their main
result.

"Pinch-hit for bobble heads": This is a seemingly
silly picture of someone stepping in to be a substitute batter for a
toy baseball player, whose head MINDLESSLY bobbles. The
pinch-hitters represent occult infiltrators into various important
organizations, including all the media, all our churches, and every
political party. Their purpose is to effectively take control
of these groups, and GET US DISTRACTED FROM THE IMPORTANT CRITICAL
ISSUES THAT THEY AVOID BRING UP!

"Follow beaten-path dreams": The job of the occultists here
is to get the masses to STAY ON THE PAGAN PATHS that they have been
taught to constantly walk upon, and for the occultists to do the same,
to fulfill the dream of Lucifer one day defeating God. As
shocking as this might be to Republicans, especially Republican
Christians, W
Bush was referring to this same beaten path when he said:

"When our Founders
declared a new order of the ages… they were acting on an ancient
hope that is
meant to be fulfilled."

"Listen to blind watchmakers": This was initially
based upon William
Paley's Watchmaker Argument,
which argued that anything that shows some form of DESIGN, requires the
existence of a DESIGNER. In other words, he argued that GOD
was the designer and creator of the universe because we see evidence of
design in nature. "BLIND watchmakers" is a reference to the
book, "The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a
Universe without Design," by atheist Richard
Dawkins.
The belief in evolution has been around at
least a THOUSAND years before Darwin was alive. It is very arguable
that the theory of evolution has been part of pagan religion thousands
of years longer.

“The world is
governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those
who are not behind the scenes."

The kings of Europe for
much of the "Christian" era, had to show allegiance to the Pope, by
kissing
his ring.
What makes this a "faux" ring is the false notion that the Pope is a
true successor of the Apostle Peter, thus indicating (from the Catholic
view) that he is the head of the entire universal ("catholic") church,
or Body of Christ. This is blasphemous, because JESUS CHRIST
is the only head of the Body of Christ:

Eph 5:23 "For the
husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the
church, He
Himself {being} the Savior of the body."

In a more generic
meaning to the lyric, the occultists/elitists goal is to get the masses
to accept counterfeit authority, whether it be religious or political
authority. They "kiss the faux ring" to set the example for
others to follow, even if they themselves do not accept such
authority. Interestingly, the Antichrist will apparently one
day HATE the Catholic Church, even though he is at least for a time
associated in some ways with it, according to the book of Revelation,
and assuming that the "whore of Babylon" truly depicts the Catholic
church as most Christians have believed for many centuries.

"Carpool with clowns": Nobody thinks that they are
fools, especially foolish people. The arrogant
occultist/elitists who worked hard to dumb down the masses and take
control of them (including most evangelical churches), think VERY LOWLY
of us. I am rather sure that apostates like Rick Warren deep
down really do think lowly of their faithful followers who eat up their
propaganda. Yet, as much as these covert
propagandists/instigators hate all of us, they realize that they must
CO-EXIST with us for now, and even pretend to be mostly like
us. For a simple picture of this, think of how all our
politicians, when they visit with middle or low class people in public,
how they will DRESS MORE CASUALLY, to get those groups to identify with
the politician, even stooping to eat some of the local food, like an
"average" person.

"Sing this under duress as
gladly as I have done":
A very clear paradox appears here. The "occultist/elitist"
who is singing this song, at least to some degree, is UNDER GREAT
PRESSURE to not only sing (preach/practice) what is found in this song,
but also to at least try to APPEAR to be doing it gladly.
This lyric is meant to strongly imply that every occultist/elitist
becomes more and more aware that they are somehow under the authority
of a HIGHER authority, and thus, is always in the position of being
expendable. This is a good example of why Christianity is
unique amongst all the other religions (which are all pagan in nature):
In Christianity, we do not obey God because we are FORCED to obey
Him. We obey Him because we freely LOVE Him. In ALL
other religions, there is ALWAYS some form of COMPULSION other than
love (ex: fear) that causes their followers to obey.
Unfortunately, many a Christian cult (including Catholicism) always end
up using pagan forms of compulsion to enforce obedience.

I hope that this was a
worthwhile read to those wondering what this song was about.
Keep in mind that most of the lyrics of my other songs have rather
compressed amounts of meaning in them also. However, don't
expect me to write out the meanings like this for ALL my songs!--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1-8-11:
My usual apologies are in order for my lateness in updating
SKySWiM news. I've been scolded by a number of friends,
co-collabortors, and even family, for giving my composing such a low
priority. I've tried to reform all that, and still do all the
other things I manage to do, albeit, maybe a bit more efficiently.

My song, My Family of Latvia,
was finished and made public on 11-24-10. It was uploaded at
various sites, but at the provided link, you can easily see a full song
description and the lyrics. One unexpected problem with the
lyrics, was that because the English lyrics I wrote did not translate
well into Latvian, I decided to sing it in English. Maybe
someday, I can find a way to write a nice Latvian translation, and do
it in my parent's native tongue. On an ironically
sad
note, one of the biggest fans of my music in my family in
Latvia, my cousin, Inara Mezapuke,
unexpectedly PASSED AWAY 11-25-10, the day after I uploaded this song.
She was the main person to help me realize the song lyrics
that
were provided by other family members were ineffective in Latvian, and
that I should sing it first in English. She was certainly one
of
those on my mind as I wrote the song. I feel fortunate to
have at
least met her one time, in July 2008. We managed to talk on
the
phone (via Skype) a number of times also, both of us using broken
Latvian and English, but somehow slowly communicating. She
apparently was quite a Latvian poet. The little I have
managed to
translate into English of her poems, show a deep and complex flow of
creative thought. Maybe someday, I could use some of that in
song? Hmm...

My song, Encrypt the Question, another collaboration withAnchor
Mejans
is quite a bit finished. I continue to try to develop my own
style of classical compositions here. In this tune, I am
exploring more rich and complex SOLOING by various orchestral
instruments, along with an odd but dramatic LO-FI grand piano I
programmed. The vocal section of the piece will include
quite a
bit of shifting between 2/4 and 3/4 meter, something I also do a bit in
the instrumental parts, but using quite a different feel and tempo.
At the moment, I also include a very haunting ambient
background
set of sounds that integrates more of my Negative Rental Space experimental
sound, in paricular, like my song, Goth Family Christmas.
Unknown to even Anchor Mejans, I am also actually planning and started
some work on a REMIX of Encrypt the Question.
What is most funny about it, is that it will in effect be
mostly
a DIFFERENT song. It will probably have more of an
"electronic"
beat, but in my own unique style. It is tentatively
entitled, Encrypt the Question
(Revelation Mix).
If all goes well, it will include quite a bit of spoken word
from a couple of different sources, all speaking in regards to various
CONSPIRACY THEORIES. Whether or not some truth is found in
such
things is up to the listener to decide. I must confess that
I
find reading such theories on the Internet quite interesting.
Some of it is obviously FICTION, since it actually
contradicts
with other theories. However, lots of it is the BEST FICTION
one
could ever read, because it is presented AS FACT, and is made to fit SO
WELL into recent and current history! This reminds me of
challenging an atheist friend of mine who LOVES to read, to read the
Bible strictly as a LITERATURE book, and try to appreciate how the
various authors manage to WONDERFULLY CONNECT so many stories,
patterns, symbols. I personally believe that one could
actually
be convinced of the DIVINE inspiration of the Bible if they really saw
all the amazing INTERNAL connections within the Bible, IF they first
approached it that way. NO Bible as Literature class I think
ever
did this well, since few teachers have seen that many patterns, and of
those, saw them only one-dimensionally.

Maybe this is a stretch to tell you what my NEXT song after this will
be. I will tell you this, that I already wrote lyrics for a
new
tune (possibly another collaboration with Anchor
Mejans), that is called, Those Clever Mannequins.
It originally was meant specifically for a NEW collaborator
to
sing, but she sadly (or happily) never followed up with producing
anything as yet. Last time I heard from her was 12/19/09!
It could be an interesting predicament if I finish another
version first. At that point, I think I would treat them
technically as two different "movements" of the same piece.
Since I am a bit manic at the moment apparently, I might as well tell
you about yet another song that I plan on finishing. Believe
it
or not, this song was already 80% finished back around 1987!
For
some reason, I could not figure out how to totally finish it, UNTIL
RECENTLY. It originally had a bit of an 80's sound (not
surprisingly), but I recently tweaked and rearanged the music and
instruments so that it feels more like the busyness heard on Hoodoo Zephyr by composer John Adams,
minus his minimalism, with the musicality of some old TV game show.
Not surprisingly, the working title for this song is, Game Show.
5-28-10:
I must apologize for being SO FAR BEHIND in my new
songs!
Don't lose hope, since I am getting on the ball with them
once
again. Against my better judgment, I agreed to recently work
on
two other artist's songs, which has taken more time than I expected.
I should be finally wrapping that up in just the next few
days.

My song, My Family of Latvia, should
be my next song completed, and I should get back to work on it in the
next few days. Due to various problems in translation, I
decided
to only do the song in ENGLISH, which will probably better please the
majority of my fans. Apparently, it is hard to translate my
words
into Latvian, without losing the poetic beauty and feel of my
English lyrics. This is based on feedback from some
relatives in
Latvia.

Also, a new song with the help of Anchor
Mejans is already being worked on, called, Encrypt the Question.
Once again, it will include strong "classical" music
elements, but don't expect it to be orthodox by any standard!
I just realized that I never announced at my website that my song, Tivo My Message, was finished and is now online.
But that is not the only good news with that song, since I
made a cool music video of that song also!

That was not the only music video I made recently of my music.
If you think We
Like Snacks was a crazy song, you will got nuts seeing the music video of the song too!
Don't forget that We Like Snacks was originally a kind of "remix"
of my bizarre song, My Name is Special Edward, which
might explain for why you hear Edward at the start, and see his
infamous monkey more than once in the video.

Another thing I did recently, was do my own gothic cover of the famous
song, Imagine, by
John Lennon. My version is quite unorthodox.
I also made a music video of this song,
which points out the real meaning of the words, and how Lennon's own
ideals are fully inline with the still future Antichrist talked about
in the Bible, and the New World Order which is for the most part
already in place.

Even though I am normally a software engineer as a career, I've been
"in-between" positions for a while now. In the meantime, I've
been getting more and more music gigs, and I have even gone back to
teaching private music lessons. At least it helps to pay the
bills.:-)

Ironically, thanks to my interest in the cutting-edge biblical
teachings of Dr. Thomas Horn,
I have somehow managed though this interest, to gain the
interest
of his son, Joe Horn, in my own music. Joe has graciously
added
me as one of his select artists to promote at his own music
website, Artist Expressway.
Wow, nice to be featured on their front page, no less!
I
cannot say that I agree with all the politics and how it is pushed by
my fellow artists there, but I am certainly honored to be part of their
organization. As a Christian, I am being given a chance to
voice an important message to both
Christians and non-Christians about important current issues that are
not really being touched by too many other people, and use my music as
a vehicle for such things.
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9-9-09:
We had a wonderful world premire performance of The Tortilla Fairy,
at the Plaza central de Zacatlán, in
Zacatlán, Mexico. You can hear the song by going here.

Two other compositions are well under way towards completion.
A sequel to Cascade
of Souls. Anchor
Mejans
will once again be singing, this time in a work called, Tivo My Message.
The other piece I will sing in Latvian, called My Family of Latvia.
It will include guitar work by my cousin Jānis Janpavlis.
I don't know if the song will capture it fully, but it is
about
my overwhelming emotions in going to my biological parent's country of
origin, and meeting many family members there that I never met before.
I want to go back soon!

2-5-09:
Lots of roadblocks regarding getting any of the 3 new tunes finished
that I am working on at the same time. However, progress is
being
made on them.

On another matter, I have resurrected an old organization I started way
back in high school in 1974, called, Trombone Union Forces.
It is
mainly a Facebook organization right now. See more details
about
Trombone Union Forces, or TUF, HERE.

9-15-08:I am way behind in
updating
this, but not that much new musically. I have been uploading
a
few old piano improvs from the early 1980s , Piano Improv #1 and Piano Improv #2. Still
very slowly working on the "Torilla Fairy" and another song at the same
time.

The big news is, is that in July, I went to Europe for the first time.
Even BIGGER news, I spent 5 days in Lativa, the country where
both my biological parents were born, met quite a few of my
relatives, and found ones I never knew even existed. They are
begging me to come back again soon, since there is so much to catch up
on. I am spending a lot of time trying to learn Latvian, and
I
probably will try singing some later songs in Latvian. I also
visited Sweden and Denmark. My wife is part Danish, and we
managed to find and visit the small city where her great, great
grandfather used to live in that country.

4-9-08

Just
got
back from a 5 day trip to "Nawlins" (New Orleans). It was a
great
trip, in spite of having to wade through the Bourbon Street frat party
people in the French Quarter. As corny as some of that old
time
dixieland styled jazz is there, it was really cool to hear it in the
few places that it was being played. I especially enjoyed
hanging
out to hear Jamil Sharif's band at the Maison Bourbon Jazz Club.
If I go back to Nawlins some day, I think I might just take
one
of my trombones with me, set a hat down in the French Quarter, and just
start playing. Even though musicians do that elsewhere, like
where I live, it just seems to be more appreciated in the French
Quarter than anywhere else, as long as it is the old fashioned jazz
stuff. LOTS of jazz trombonists with their hats out on the
streets, surprisingly. Maybe I will experience Turf War if I
try
this? :-)Just a bit of
updates/corrections since last blog: Finished my remix
contest entry for 46Bliss. However, I did not post it under
my Goth Family Singers profile, but HERE,
under my SKySWiM profile. It was originally just going to be
a
joke remix, but I heard far too many gems in the noise, so I polished
it up, lessened the more obnoxious parts, and I think, made a worthy
contest entry.

The "Tortilla Fairy" song has taken off into even stranger directions.
After telling the song idea to some people at my church who
are
Mexican-American, they got all excited about it, and now are wanting to
be part of it. Much of the instrumental music is completed,
which
was based on a musical sketch I made around 1992. If you can
imagine an orchestra trying to perform a rock version of Spaghetti
Western music in the style of the El Mariachi
movies, you might have a ballpark idea of where the fringes of this
are, if you are willing to substitute a tortilla maker in
place of
a guitar player. As goofy as this is, my Mexican-American
friends
actually think that this will be popular with many in the
Mexican-American community. Not sure who is muy loco (very
crazy) here, me, them, or all of us! :-)

2-29-08
A bit of late news, but I recently uploaded an even stranger
tune musically than Everybody's Got a Web Page.
It is called Cascade
of Souls. Anchor
Mejans came
up with the vocal melody, whereas I did the lyrics and the
rest of
the music. It was inspired by the actual rant of an orchestra
conductor at a concert dress rehearsal I was part of recently.
The
song creatively was like trying to figure out how to mix oil with
water. Somehow, I finally could hear how symphonic OPERA
could
mix
with a techno kind of beat and bass line. I also debuted my
new
Shires
orchestra trombone on this one on the solo. Expect a kind of
sequel to Cascade of Souls, with Anchor doing vocals again somehow once
again on it.

My next tune will be about the Tortilla Fairy. Is it possible
that I finally lost my mind completely? :-) In the
meantime, I am trying to throw together a remix contest entry under my Goth
Family Singers alter ego.

5-2-07

Just
recently finished the song, Everybody's Got a Web Page. It was
mostly inspired by much of the activities by people at places like
myspace.com and acidplanet.com. As wonderful as the Internet might be
in some ways, it has also provided mankind with yet another way to
avoid true human relationships and sincerity. Todd Larson of albinoSQUIRREL
provided the excellent guitar work. It seems that he did not mind my
glitching up of his tracks. I am planning to finally buy a half way
decent camcorder and some decent video editing software, so I can make
some song videos. Todd suggested that I make one for Everybody's Got a Web Page. I
might also do one for We Like Snacks, since that also
probably would go over well with the crowds.:-)

One
of my next tunes, hopefully one that I spend little time on, is a tune
about Synthetic Guitar Phobia Disorder. It is meant to be "aversion
therapy" for those who suffer from such an ailment, and who apparently
get sick when they hear non-real guitars in music:-)

There
is a collab still in the works with Iacobus of mD,
which I expect to be kind of Industrial Rock, with the working title,
Challenge to Reply. It originally was based on a 15 year old song
sketch of mine, but it changed so much, that I probably will still go
back to my original sketch and work that up as yet another song. There are at least 3
songs I have on the back burner that are about half way completed. Not
sure if I am crazy enough, but two of them originally had me PLAYING
REAL BASS GUITAR! I will have to either practice bass again, or get a
better bass player do the part. Sorry that I have been
so slow with coming out with new tunes. Remodeling of my home has been
a NIGHTMARE that has actually taken over 18 months. That has taken LOTS
of emotional energy out of me and my wife. I have been mostly focusing
on playing classical trombone gigs. I would really like to try to pull
off my tunes live, but probably try quite different versions of them,
maybe even "lounge" versions:-)

11-25-06
Had lots of great reviews from various websites regarding my new faux
guitar rock tune, Mindless
Matter . I only used midi-driven synths and
drums (no loops) in it. Song was influenced especially because of
various non-Christians posing as Christians, effectively drawing people
away from God and the Bible.

New tune in the works: Everybody's Got a Web Page. It will include guitar
tracks by Albino Squirrel (Todd Larson). This song is just begging
me to try to go a bit more experimental than many of my more recent
tunes.